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Seeing in Russia’s Cold War defeat the need to extol the non-Western roots of Russian history and tradition, Putin has fallen back on the same conservative values that emerged in response to the Napoleonic invasion of 1812, frustrating Peter the Great’s modernization efforts.

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They took the tapioca roots up to the kitchen, sliced them thinly and made delicious chips.

So these are little ordinary, everyday heroes, and they're incredibly admirable, but there's no way that they can sustain this kind of activity in the face of a system that either roots them out or grinds them down.

Roots make a firm foundation.

And when you watch bonobo play, you're seeing the very evolutionary roots of human laughter, dance and ritual.

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